Let’s get some perspective here: Summly wasn’t reading Ulysses by James Joyce and extracting the fact that the three-masted ship Leopold Bloom sees on the horizon is a metaphor for the Holy Trinity and therefore represents the Catholic Church. It wasn’t reading a 12 page article in Harper’s and extracting the cleverest puns and pop culture send-offs lovingly embedded by a writer who is good at his craft and earning below his potential. And it wasn’t taking my blog posts and somehow conveying the nuanced ennui I harbor for bolt-on engineering. It was summarizing news. Articles that are already written with a TL;DR in the first paragraph.

Posted on March 27, 2013 at 10:36am.

Let’s get some perspective here: Summly wasn’t reading Ulysses by James Joyce and extracting the fact that the three-masted ship Leopold Bloom sees on the horizon is a metaphor for the Holy Trinity and therefore represents the Catholic Church. It wasn’t reading a 12 page article in Harper’s and extracting the cleverest puns and pop culture send-offs lovingly embedded by a writer who is good at his craft and earning below his potential. And it wasn’t taking my blog posts and somehow conveying the nuanced ennui I harbor for bolt-on engineering.
It was summarizing news. Articles that are already written with a TL;DR in the first paragraph.

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E. Gün Sirer on one of several things that are actually wrong with Yahoo’s purchase of Summly.

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